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David G.
Mar 5, 2017

There will be no change. The copper bob is more dense, so it will have more mass, but mass does not influence the period of a pendulum.

Explanation:

The formula for the period of a pendulum is

T=2π√lg

Where T is the period in seconds, l is the length of the pendulum in metres and g is the acceleration due to gravity in ms−2.

As you can see, the mass of the pendulum does not appear anywhere in this calculation.

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